[matt_st3 (Strongrule)]

Staff ranks should not be purchasable. Ranks with powers over the players in the server should only ever be by application. I’m not even a fan of donors having the powers overall after a few years of watching. But it exists, they have powers, and the rank is *not* a staff role meaning they both don’t have the responsibility or any real authority. A weird concept but it’s true as staff are allowed to overrule even at the base level. Which is acceptable enough, as a buyable rank with power but no real responsibility to use it should be restricted.
That being said, so long as a situation is handled correctly when I was on I didn’t particularly care who handled it, even if it was a donor. But these situations were minor at most with only gags and muted most of the time. It’s not very often that donors get as far as a kick. However, the donors have no expectation to do this as they are not staff.
The closest thing that exists is donor+ which is given to admins who retire. It’s basically donor that can read staff chat. It has been limited to admins as a bar which I agree with. If we cherry picked which resigned staff or member got this, it would devolve immediately into favoritism because it would be a subjective system of picking. This helper ranks sounds like a trusted rank who gets the free pass of not having to staff when they feel like it at any time. I have a hard time trusting that kind of special privilege. This guy gets trusted and we expect him to staff but the next guy can have a free pass trusted just because. No thanks. I have yet to see an idea for this as it keeps cropping up that isn’t basically free donor, a subjectively selected set of powers without responsibility, or just flat out trusted.